Comments on: Users With a Tattoo of Your Logo? Check. http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:50:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Tom http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/#comment-100 Tom Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:37:50 +0000 http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/#comment-100 Hey Steve, Glad to hear you are enjoying the articles. I didn't work on the image feature, but I loved it so much. It was definitely one of the coolest things we had. I *think* the way that it worked was that each image in the search results had a file ID query parameter on it. When browsing search results, the server would return the right image based on what you already had and what was in your queue. When you clicked it, we reloaded the image with a second parameter that enqueued your request and then returned a new image. So, we fetched the image and started the request with one round trip to the server. The tiny gif was actually served by a PHP script. Again, I think that was how it worked. I know it wasn't using Ajax, so I'm not sure how else we would have done it. Cheers, Tom Hey Steve,

Glad to hear you are enjoying the articles. I didn’t work on the image feature, but I loved it so much. It was definitely one of the coolest things we had. I *think* the way that it worked was that each image in the search results had a file ID query parameter on it. When browsing search results, the server would return the right image based on what you already had and what was in your queue.

When you clicked it, we reloaded the image with a second parameter that enqueued your request and then returned a new image. So, we fetched the image and started the request with one round trip to the server. The tiny gif was actually served by a PHP script.

Again, I think that was how it worked. I know it wasn’t using Ajax, so I’m not sure how else we would have done it.

Cheers,
Tom

]]> By: Steven Gravell http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/#comment-99 Steven Gravell Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:04:37 +0000 http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/#comment-99 Hey Tom, it's great reading about what was going on under-the-hood at Audiogalaxy, much appreciated reads. I remember to this day that I found out about the band Faraquet due to a mis-tagging of the song The Fourth Introduction as being by Q And Not U (whom I was fanatical about at the time). I even managed to get in contact with one of the guys from The White Octave to get a live set of theirs. It just, ya know, worked. Now and again I still think about the "queue up a track in the browser script that returns an image as the result to make it look depressed technique" (I assumed that was how it was done, but I sadly can't check it out). Again, thanks for sharing these stories take it easy, steve Hey Tom, it’s great reading about what was going on under-the-hood at Audiogalaxy, much appreciated reads.

I remember to this day that I found out about the band Faraquet due to a mis-tagging of the song The Fourth Introduction as being by Q And Not U (whom I was fanatical about at the time). I even managed to get in contact with one of the guys from The White Octave to get a live set of theirs. It just, ya know, worked. Now and again I still think about the “queue up a track in the browser script that returns an image as the result to make it look depressed technique” (I assumed that was how it was done, but I sadly can’t check it out).

Again, thanks for sharing these stories
take it easy,
steve

]]> By: Kennon Ballou http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/#comment-73 Kennon Ballou Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:10:00 +0000 http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/#comment-73 Actually, I think the AG music community was simply fantastic, and hadn't been replicated since until perhaps last.fm, which I still see as the spiritual successor to what we were trying to do with the community back then. I still miss AG. And I still run into people who remember it fondly. *Last summer* my girlfriend and I spent a week on Malta, and on one day I wore my one remaining Audiogalaxy t-shirt. As we were walking out of the hotel, the receptionist stopped me and started talking to me about AG - he had been into some sort of weird eclectic music genre and had been a huge AG fan. Pretty amazing to still be meeting people who remember it :) Actually, I think the AG music community was simply fantastic, and hadn’t been replicated since until perhaps last.fm, which I still see as the spiritual successor to what we were trying to do with the community back then.

I still miss AG. And I still run into people who remember it fondly.

*Last summer* my girlfriend and I spent a week on Malta, and on one day I wore my one remaining Audiogalaxy t-shirt. As we were walking out of the hotel, the receptionist stopped me and started talking to me about AG - he had been into some sort of weird eclectic music genre and had been a huge AG fan. Pretty amazing to still be meeting people who remember it :)

]]> By: Kennon Ballou http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/#comment-72 Kennon Ballou Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:05:49 +0000 http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/13/users-with-a-tattoo-of-your-logo-check/#comment-72 Tom, this is fantastic reading - I knew very little about what you guys were doing upstairs every night, and it's awesome hearing it about now (albeit 8 years later) I'm waiting anxiously to read the rest :) Tom, this is fantastic reading - I knew very little about what you guys were doing upstairs every night, and it’s awesome hearing it about now (albeit 8 years later)

I’m waiting anxiously to read the rest :)

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